 They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now...  The Englishman's library [ed. by E. H. L.]. - Sayfa 191Englishman tarafından - 1824Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 sayfa
...more your mighty deeds ; Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds ; All hands must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. GEORGE WITHER. THIS poet was bom of a good family at Bentworth, near Alton, in 1588, and at sixteen... | |
 | 1851 - 558 sayfa
...boast no more your mighty deeds : Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds. All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. BOTH WORLDS HAVE THEIR PROPER BUSINESS. Consider the great purposes of the present Tife can be answered... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 sayfa
...boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon death's purple altar now, See where the victor-victim bleeds: All heads must come To the cold tomb: Only the actions...of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust. WHEN THIS OLD CAP WAS NEW. Anonymous. AD 1666. From a black-letter copy among the KoJborgh Songs and... | |
 | 1851 - 496 sayfa
...boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon death's purple altar, now, See where the victor victim bleeds : All heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. SOLILOQUY ON PEATH. I HAVE not lived After the rate to fear another world. We come from nothing into... | |
 | Christian poets - 1851 - 470 sayfa
...no more your mighty deeds Upon death's purple altar now, See where the victor-victim bleeds ! Your heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. t : HE CAN CARRY NOTHING WITH IIIM WHEN HE DIETH." WAGES of Sin is death : the day is come. Wherein... | |
 | R. W. Vanderkiste - 1852 - 380 sayfa
...vainly boast arms' mighty deeds, Upon death's purple altar now — See here the martial victim bleeds. All heads must come To the cold tomb ; Only the actions...of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in the dust." I cannot well prolong this narrative by detailing the gracious expressions the dying soldier uttered.... | |
 | United States. 76th Cong., 3d sess., 1940, United States. Congress - 1941 - 174 sayfa
...more your mighty deeds; Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor — victim bleeds; Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust. What a sad commentary of fate that in this age of enlightenment,... | |
 | 1910 - 594 sayfa
...legend on the obverse is taken from James Shirley's The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses (1659) — " Your heads must come To the cold tomb ; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust." A specimen of the second variety, in the British Musenm Collection,... | |
 | David Rubadiri - 1989 - 132 sayfa
...boast no more your mighty deeds! Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor-victim bleeds. Your heads must come, To the cold tomb: Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in their dust. James Shirley (England) Prayer to the moon Take my face and give me... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1996 - 220 sayfa
...by the light of this event, is brought out distinctly, like an invisible writing held to the fire. All heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. We have heard that the Boston lady who recently visited our hero in prison found him wearing still... | |
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